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Health Care Cost | Nutrition Evaluation Measures

In contrast with the worker productivity costs described above, health care costs are measures of the direct medical expenses of providing employee health care and preventive health programs.

Baseline

Determine current health care use and costs, including pharmaceuticals, counseling, and inpatient and outpatient care, for the diseases and conditions affected by dietary behavior. Examples include: type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and high cholesterol

Determine the current health care use and costs for clinical nutrition services (if covered), including counseling, prescribed supplements and other medication, outpatient and inpatient care for employees

Determine the health care use and costs of program participants before education and other programs are initiated and after operation of these programs